In this article, public historian and artist-academic Tré Ventour considers a 1970s UK school scandal as an entry point into a nuanced conversation on neurodivergence while Black. Part-history, part-sociological inquiry. This is a must-read!
Christine Condo on how the experience of being autistic is like being locked out of a glass room that she can see inside but can never enter.
I am writing this to carve out space for myself in the socially-constructed version of the world. I don’t exist if I’m autistic and all autistic people who act the way I’m acting are masking.
A minister expresses their relationship with working with Neurodivergent people and states that they have been sold a lie that says people have to hide who they are to be loved by the Divine.
It is those who seize power and control via their continued privileges who often become the spokespeople of a given minority group. Call-out culture needs to be called out because it has become a tool of oppressors.
I promise that I will always try to approach the idea of a cure or treatment with compassion in mind. If someone feels they need to be cured, it’s logical to reason that they are hurting. I will try to keep this in mind to avoid minimizing any harm.
I was assigned An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon for my sci-fi class last semester. Within a few pages of beginning to read, I
The bitter irony of his dressing in black was not lost on me. He smiled a hopeful smile, before walking into the “job interview practice”
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